PlayStation Store Update – 6th August 2009

Hello all. After our experiment to go out early last week, we’ve decided to revert back to providing the store updates on the blog on a Thursday, to ensure you have the most accurate information possible. However, we will make sure that the content updates are provided nice and early on a Thursday morning so that you still have quite a bit of warning as to what will be available later in the day. I think this is a good middle ground between the test from last week, and when we used to publish the content updates after the store was updated, so I hope you’ll still feel this is an improvement on how we used to do it.

I apologise that the Wednesday test was so short-lived, but it turns out that it was more difficult than I’d first anticipated for our teams to confirm completely accurate content that much in advance.

Okay, so onto the content this week, we have another mixed bag available for you, from the quiz game TV Show King, to the demo version of Batman: Arkham Asylum, via a trial for Rag Doll Kung-Fu to the third map pack for the ever popular Call of Duty: World at War.

Enjoy, and you know the drill by now – see you in the comments section

** Unfortunately some of the content has had to be removed, please see blockquotes below for more details **

Downloadable Games

TV Show King (£7.99/€9.99)
Confront friends and family in this TV quiz game show, with various subjects to test your knowledge on and unique multiplayer modes – you can also take the challenge online and battle against other players across the globe.
PEGI 3+

Trial (and Unlock key)

Rag Doll Kung-Fu: Fists of Plastic (Trial free, Unlock Key £7.99/€9.99)
Now you can try the chaotic action of Rag Doll Kung Fu, where martial arts combine with crazy action figures, for plenty of madcap fighting. You can also upgrade to the full game by purchasing the unlock key.
PEGI 12+

PSone Classics (PS3 & PSP compatible)

**This content has had to be postponed **

Extreme Pinball (£3.99/€4.99) This content has had to be postponed
Four challenging, gadget filled tables are available, to test those pinball skills. Each table has different requirements in order to rack up the points.
PEGI 3+

Demo (free)

Batman: Arkham Asylum
Join Batman as he scours the intimidating Arkham Asylum, made even more unnerving now that the Joker has taken charge and unleashed his goons!
PEGI 16+

Add-On Game Content

Call of Duty: World at War – Map Pack 3 (£7.99/€9.99)
The World at War experience grows ever more, with the addition of this new map pack, featuring three new multiplayer maps (and one further zombie map). There are also 10 additional trophies to be claimed.
PEGI 16+

Savage Moon – Waldgeist Pack (£3.19/€3.99)
The bugs are back, and this time they’ve evolved. Fight for you life in six new levels, featuring new creatures to fend off. There are however, two new tower types to help your defence. Also these new enemies and towers can also be used in the existing levels from the full game.
PEGI 16+

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood – Old West Map Pack (£7.99/€9.99)
Now you can experience even more legendary Wild West shootouts through these four new multiplayer maps.
PEGI 12+

LittleBigPlanet – inFamous Cole Costume (£1.59/€1.99)
Dress up as Cole and take the inFamous experience into the world of LittleBigPlanet.
PEGI 3+

**This pack will now release later this month**

Fight Night Round 4 – Downloadable Content 1 (free) This pack will now release later this month
This pack adds the following available for use in-game: sponsored tournaments, a new training gym, new gameplay sliders and a few extra bits of kit.
PEGI 16+

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 – Cog Hill (£3.19/€3.99)
Test your golf skills at Cog Hill, home of the PGA’s Western Open, and play on the Dubsdread #4 course with its rolling fairways and greens.
Special introductory price until 12th August
PEGI 3+

Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires – Additional Music Set 3 (free)
Another music set which allows you to choose new tracks from the BGM menu option.
PEGI 16+

Rock Band
Further your Rock Band experience with this selection of content to download:
PEGI 12+

Guitar Hero: World Tour
Further your track collection with this additional content for download:
PEGI 12+

Camel’s Night Out by Eric Johnson (£1.59/€1.99)

Videos (free)

Battlefield 1943 – Launch Trailer

Gran Turismo PSP – Trailer

Wallpapers (free)

Topatoi x3 Wallpapers

PlayStation Store via PSP and Media Go

Downloadable Games

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men’s Chest (£15.99/€19.99)
Defeat swarms of enemies as you search for the fabled Dead Men’s Chest; you can also battle in epic multiplayer battles on the high seas.
PEGI 16+

PSone Classics (PS3 & PSP compatible)

**This content has had to be postponed **

Extreme Pinball (£3.99/€4.99) This content has had to be postponed
Four challenging, gadget filled tables are available, to test those pinball skills. Each table has different requirements in order to rack up the points.
PEGI 3+

Add-On Game Content (also available via the PS3 store)

Rock Band Unplugged
Further your Rock Band Unplugged experience with this selection of tracks now available:

im sorry mike im must say this, this update is so-so it not bad(crap) but not good, as for me im getting 1 thing of the store can you guess what it be, & are you be at gamescon. ps i hope you ppl be nice to mike this week.

Not a bad update really. Been looking forward to the Batman Demo for a long time; still undecided about whether to look into buying it or not.

I’m interested in the Cole costume for LittleBigPlanet actually. On the pictures, I saw, he could have both red and blue lightning. Do both colours come with the costume?

Also, Mike, I know I might be asking the wrong person here, but is there any news from Titan Studios on the Fat Princess patch? I want to get on earning trophies and unlocking costumes for it, but I’ve only managed to get onto one online game so far D:

Can’t wait to get my hands on Batman demo, my bro and i keep talking about it.
(about PSone classics, i wish Sony would release Crash Bash or Team Buddies, or that Psygnosis / Sony Liverpool work on a Team Buddies remake. Considering the success of Fat Princess, it can be only good)

is it true that from the 18th august that thre will be an option to pay for the psn for premium content form the store ect? someone posted this on the forums and it said to register on a asian playstation site is this a con?

We don’t actualy require that information when getting content submitted for the store, so it’s not readily available for me to include in the updates. Believe me, if I did have that information I would share it for you as I appreciate it’s quite important for some of you.

Hello Mike, I’m very pleased to see the Savage Moon add on pack this week.
I have a question regarding another Tower Defence game which is on all the other stores except for SCEE and has got really excellent reviews called Comet Crash.
Could you tell me if this game is going to become available for our region at some point?
Thank You

MIKE i bought yesterday suikoden,wild arms, mgs,resi evil directors cut,castelvania SOTN from the usa store they play fine on my uk psp i would really have been very happy getting extreme pinball ps1 classic i have give up waiting for the europe store to get its act together p.s everyone when METAL GEAR SOLID does arrive config the item buttons to the right and left shoulder buttons in other settings as the nub is the default.

Thanks for the update , nice content , infact any content is good IMO.

Also 1 point i purchased bf1943 from the store .

AND ” THE GAME IS NOT WORKING PROPERLY.”

Now after the shout could you find out if this game is getting fixed soon , if not then how to millions of PS3 owners get a refund.You cant sell a broken game for £9.99 and not fix it.Please respond to this question .

Be it through inflated prices or simply uninteresting content.
Instead of just asking Konami for MGS1, how about approaching them fully and giving them support to get us MGS1, giving them free hosting and some free advertising.

It’s not your fault Mike, but as our representative, you should want to help us Europeans get better service because we’re your most faithful market and the one most hardly done by.

I can’t go into the issues that may be preventing some games from launching on the store, but sometimes it’s not just a matter of giving them freebies to help solve the problem. I will always be more than happy to help publishers where I can, but often there are issues that I cannot get invloved in, or have any say in.